My computer beeps and freezes

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Thank you for the reply.
From what you are saying another possible cause could just be a good cleaning which I have not done in a while of the fan and housings.

Are you saying to download and run all of these or one of each?

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Use the following programs to monitor the temperatures.
Real Temp is a good CPU temperature monitor.
Speccy - System Information - Free Download will monitor all hardware temperatures.
HWiNFO, HWiNFO32 & HWiNFO64 - Hardware Information and Analysis Tools can be inaccurate for CPU temperatures, but is a good program for GPU temperature monitoring.

A couple stress tools to help with placing the system under stress if needed.
Run Prime95 to test your CPU, RAM modules, and general hardware.

Run FurMark to test the display card for artifacts and temperature issues.

Run a disk check with both boxes checked for all HDDs and with Automatically fix file system errors checked for all SSDs. Post back your logs for the checks after finding them using Event Viewer. In Event Viewer, expand Windows Logs, click Application to let it load, right click Application and click Find.... Search for chkdsk or wininit to find the logs.
For any drives that do not give the message:

If you have a Marvell IDE ATA/ATAPI device, make sure the drivers are up to date from the Intel site or Marvell site and not from your motherboard/vendor support site.

Run Memtest86+ for at least 7-10 passes. It may take up to 22 passes to find problems. Make sure to run it once after the system has been on for a few hours and is warm, and then also run it again when the system has been off for a few hours and is cold.

If you have an SSD, make sure the following are up to date:
SSD firmware
BIOS Version
Chipset Drivers
Hard disk controller drivers/SATA drivers
If you have a Marvell IDE ATA/ATAPI device, make sure the drivers are up to date from the Intel site or Marvell site and not from your motherboard/vendor support site.

I dont know what these are. It is looking like a trip to the repair shop if the beep gets worse. But thank you again for your assistance.

I was not aware whether you had a solid state drive (SSD) since you did not provide all specs to us. That is why we generally ask users to follow the blue screen instructions even if they are not getting blue screens.

Because RAID was designed with servers in mind, not for the home user in mind. It causes unnecessary extra complications that lead to headaches for the average user. Unless you have an IT background, I recommend avoiding those complications. Just my opinion.

Let us know how the browser switching goes. I know Chrome has been causing problems for a co-worker of mine, but that was on an Ubuntu system, so I do not know if it applies in Windows.

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